November 12, 2014
By The Morning News
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- Today at 11 am ET, ESA mission control will webcast its attempt of the first-ever probe landing on a comet.
- US and China—who together emit 40% of the world's greenhouse gases—make a deal to reduce carbon emissions.
- Five banks, including Citigroup and JPMorgan, to pay $3.3 billion for manipulating foreign currency market—more fines may be brewing.
- Plants use fungal networks to send each other information and nutrients.
- The meme declaring Congress has an 11% approval rate and a 96% reelection rate checks out as true.
- If judge's death sentence is carried out, Alabama man will be first to be executed despite a jury's vote for life.
- On seasonal depression.
- Smuggler claims to have brought ISIS fighters into Europe with Syrian refugees.
- Yemeni man details "condolence payments," neither confirmed nor denied by CIA, to compensate relatives of innocent drone victims.
- Cash-for-passports scheme offers hope and danger for thousands of stateless Kuwaitis, who would become citizens of Comoros.
- Alibaba rakes in $9.3 billion on Singles Day, a romantic holiday the e-commerce giant helped commercialize.
- Ayn Rand experts say the author would shrug off attempts to make her a feminist icon—then she'd sue.
- The author of Go the Fuck to Sleep pens a sequel.
- As an adopted child and a person of color, I understood from a young age what I was supposed to be: happy, agreeable, quiet, and grateful.
- What happened to Harold Camping, who foretold the end of the world 13 times, after his 2011 doomsday prediction.
- Highlights from the vault of demos and unreleased tracks Aphex Twin uploaded to his SoundCloud this week.
- Jenna Wortham interviews sexters, which include everyone.
